About the Authors

Amit Kumar Sinha

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit Kumar Sinha, Hamada AbdElgawad

sinha_cife@rediffmail.com

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Hamada AbdElgawad

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit Kumar Sinha, Hamada AbdElgawad

Affiliations Molecular Plant Physiology and Biotechnology group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Beni-Sueif, Beni-Sueif, Egypt

Gaurav Zinta

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology and Biotechnology group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Antony Franklin Dasan

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Rindra Rasoloniriana

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Han Asard

Affiliation Molecular Plant Physiology and Biotechnology group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Ronny Blust

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Gudrun De Boeck

Affiliation Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKS GDB GZ. Performed the experiments: AKS HAE GZ AFD RR. Analyzed the data: AKS HAE GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB HA GDB. Wrote the paper: AKS GDB.